Tin-plate-shipping package or holder.



F.. RUDOLPH L E; w. CRNES. 'TIN P'LATE SHIPPING lPACKAGE 0R HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED NOI/.III i907.

1,150,455, PatenIedAug. 17, 1915 UNITED s'iiitrss rii'friiirr onirica.

FRANKLIN' RUDOLPH AND EDW'AItlDV W. CARNES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS T0 AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N.- Y., A CORPORATION OF JERSEY.

TIN-PLATE-SHIPPING PACKAGE QR HOLDER.

speciiication of Leiters raient. Patented Aug. 17, 1915'.

Application filed November 11, 1907. Serial No. 401,540.

v'1`in-Ilate-Shipping Packages or Holders, of

which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in shipping packages for tin plate..

The obJect ot' our invention is to provide a package or holder for shipment ot tin plate in the customary'sized packages or bundles, of say about 10() pounds weight and' 112 sheets Vwhich will be of a strong, simile and durable construction; which may e readily and conveniently applied; which will efficiently bind the numerous thin sheets of the package together so that they will mutually reinforce and strengthenv each other as well as the package or holder itself; which will effectively protect the corners and edges ofthe sheets in the package from denting, bending or other injury; which will properly. protect the outer surfaces ollthe upper and lower sheets from wet, dirt, scratching,inarring or other injury: and which at the same time will he a returnable package or holder und capable of being used over and over again.

. Our invention consists in a shipping holder for piles or packages of tin plate, comprising a plurality of flanged or channeled binding Strips of heavy sheet metal,

preferably galvanized sheet steel, or other4 suitable metal, fitting over and embracing the edges of the ile or package of tin plate' sheets, and provi ed witliinterengaffing fastening devices at their meeting en s the corners of the package, the fastening devices preferably consisting of a slot on one member and a bendable lip or tongue on the other member passing) through such slot,

and clenched down to gether. V

It further consists,iii connection with these parts, of upper and lower protecting sheets ind the parts to- 'of paper, paper-board, wood veneer, thin sheet metalysuch as taggers iron, or other suitable material, embraced within the flanges of the channel strips to protect the outer surfaces of the upper and lower sheets of tin plate. I y l.It further consists, in connection with thesel parts, of one or more intermediate binding strips furnished with yan interengagringslot and tongue at its meeting ends and embracing the channel binding strips at the sides of the package.

It further consists in the novel construction of parts and devices' and novel combi nations of parts and devices herein` shown and described.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 :is a perspective view of a tin plate shipping package or holder embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a detail horizontal section on line 3 3 of Fig. l; Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the yend binding strips; Fig. 5 is a. perspective view of one of the flanged or channeled side bindin strips; Fig. 6 illustrates a inodilicntion in which two of the binding strips are made integral with each other; and Fig. 7 illustrates a modification in which three of the binding strips are made integral with each other.

In the drawing A represents a shipping unit or package of tin plate or other thin sheet metal, ordinarily of about 100 pounds unit or package A of sheets a, comprises a plurality offlanged or channeled side and end bindin 'strips B B1, the tianges I) of which over ap and embrace the upper and lower edges of the shipping unit or package A at the sides and ends of the package; and C ,C are upper and lower protecting sheets for the shipping unit or package A, referably of Water-proofed paper boar or other suitable material and embraced within the flanges of the binding strips B. The binding strips B Whether made in two, three or fourseparate pieces, are furnished at their `meeting ends, one with an integral tongue b1 and the other withaI slot` b through which the ltongue b1 is inserted, and then the tongue b14 is bent or clenched down .binding` strips together. D is an intermediate binding strip, preferably of sheet metal, and furnished at one end .with a slot al and at its opposite end with a tongue d1 'vvhich is inserted through the slot and clenched down so aste cause the intermediate binding strip to firmly embrace the package and reinforce the flanged or channeled binding strips B B at their middle portion. Any desired number of intermediete binding strips may be employed.

e n 4the modification illustrated in Fig. 6 the channeled binding strips are made in 'two separate pieces, as illustrated in Figs.

l toe; that is to say, one of the end binding strips B1 is made integral with one of the side'binding strips B. This construction reduces the number of detachable 1nterengaging attaching devices b1 b2 63' employedor the meeting ends of the binding strips at the corners of the package.

`the two side binding strips B B and one ofy in the modification illustrated in Fig. 7

the end binding strips B1, are all three made in one integral piece. We prefer to employ the construction illustrated in Figs. l to 4, wherein each of the channeled binding strips B B, LB" B1 is in aseparate piece, as in this l 'and vadapted to be connected together "to form a rigid, rectangular, ramedike holder having a continuous rectangular inwardly facing channel formed by said ianges and adapted to receive the edges of the package, said strips being furnished at their meeting ends with interengaging slot and tongue devices for detachably sccuring the saine together at a plurality of corners of the package, the flanges of one pair of said binding strips fitting within andbei'ng embraced by the flanges of another pair ot' said binding strips at the meetingcnds thereof, and each of Said binding strips having a projecting member at its end bent at right anglesthereto and embracing the adjacent binding strip, substantially as specified.

2. A holder for shipment of packages of tin plate, con'lprising a plurality of detachable, separate piece, channel-shaped, heavy sheet metal binding strips, each having upper and lower inwardly extended iianges and adapted to be connected together to form a rigid, rectangular, frame-like holder having a continuous rectangular inwardly facing channel formed by said flanges and adapted to receive the edges of the package, said strips being furnished at their meeting ends with interengaging slot and tongue devices 'or detachably securing the same to- 4gether at a plurality of corners of the package, the fianges of one pair of said binding strips fitting Within and being` embraced by the flanges of another pair of said binding strips at the meetingends thereof, and each of said binding strips having a projecting member at its end bent at right anglesthereto and embracing the adjacent binding strip, and an intermediate sheet metal binding strip encircling the package and said bind- 'ing strips, the ends of said intermediate binding strip being furnished with interengaging devices for detachably securing them together, substantially as specified.

FRANKLIN RUDOLPH. EDWARD YV. CARNES. Witnesses:

A. M. MUNDAY, Y EDMUND Anacon. 

